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Efforts to create truly smart cities in Arab nations have been uneven so far and recent reports on government services leave no doubt there's room for improvement.“Government services may be good in the big metropolitan cities, but if you are living...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Almost wherever you go in Africa, it’s rare to find electricity. And where there’s power, it’s expensive and unreliable. Council Lead Partner Electricite de France -- EDF -- is trying to change that with an innovative approach that’s already...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy
Mississippi-based Camgian Microsystems, a Council Associate Partner, this week officially released its new Internet of Things (IoT) platform – Egburt -- which aims to revolutionize the way cities and other enterprises collect and monitor their...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…Enel unit chosen for Chilean marine R&D effort Enel Green Power. a unit of the Italian utility Enel, has been selected by the Chilean government’s economic development organization to help set up...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Every so often an announcement comes along that signals a tipping point, a point in time where several trends converge to cause a market inflection. Such is the case with the news that -- over the next five years or so -- Florida Power & Light...
Article - 10/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Twenty years ago Rochester, New York was home to some big companies – Eastman Kodak among them. But downsizing and departures over the years, said Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, took their toll.What to do? The solution, city leaders decided, was to...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Policy and leadership
Council Lead Partner IBM has launched a series of humanitarian efforts to help contain the spread of Ebola in Africa. They include:A citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Public safety technology has come a long way in recent years and SunGard Public Sector helps police departments make the most of it. Perhaps one of their most important offerings, says VP of Customer Service Jillian Macau, is the ONESolution...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
As cities around the world face acute infrastructure needs, the obstacle time and again is how to pay for the smart technologies that can make them more resilient.You will hear, says Jonathan Koppell, they will pay for themselves. "That's fine," he...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement
An engineer by trade, Cisco's Cliff Thomas sees "a big wave coming" – and he says its coming hard.He's talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) really starting to kick in with more and more data from sensors and also from citizens. The goal, says...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity